rained some more, snbowed for awhile, rained some more and now its starting to freeze. welcome to spring in SD. only a couple dead heads today. these were out of the oridinary though. one was fairly well tangled up with fishing line and the other was implaed with a chunk of driftwood. i think they may have drifted in on the river under the ice and popped up through the holes that have opened in the last couple days. im thinking we need to work up a better river defense then just the tangle fence we have up now. i hate to think about another major project like a river wall.

if we had more people we could start thinking about a "castle wall" system around the whole town. we have enough cars and rubble to do it i think. use cars and house walls on the outside and and bank dirt and rubble on the inside. crude, but effective. im thinking a "mobile wall" of sorts. build a wall of cars around a given area and clear it. use materials from the cleared area to expand the wall around another area and clear that. using the original barricade as "the castle keep" and fallback position, expanding outward. you could eventually take the whole town back that way for good. god to think of all teh fuel and manpower that woudl take. id need thousands of gallons of fuel, maybe half a dozen guys on loaders and clearing crews. bulldozers, scrapers, dump trucks not to mention maintenance of equipment and breakdowns. we have plenty of operable earthmoving equipment within reach but no qualified operators. maybe i should priorotize the trip east and try and recruit some hands.

speaking of which i worked for a few hours on the surprise for Jay. ill write more on that later.